Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why?

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• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Italians were also targeted. Being from a Catholic country was sometimes enough to get targeted. Always found it funny (Woody Allen marriage funny, not Woody Allen film funny) that the Protestants who came to what is now Massachusetts seeking “religious freedom” meant it only for themselves and drove out anyone who didn’t subscribe to their views.

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  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You need to put it in context, many if not most of the denominations that came to America seeking religious freedom did so because continental Christians considered them extremists. So yes, they were seeking it only for themselves.

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• floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The term “black Irish” didn’t come from nowhere

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  • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a term? What’s it mean, besides identifying someone as black and Irish? O.o

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    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That isn’t what it means at all. It has nothing to do with the Irish skin color.

      Blacks were hated for being black for so long that when new people came to America and got the same hate and racism. They were just “black”.

      Black is being used here as just a catch all term for “not real white people”. Irish weren’t considered white for decades.

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And it wasn’t always a skin color thing either, the Irish were one of the big targets for a long time.

  Irish and Italians were not considered white, so … it’s still a “where is the migration from” kinda thing

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• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There was a reason businesses would put a sign out front that said “NINA”. No Irish Need Apply.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was always racism at it’s core.

  European immigrants accepted immigrants as long as they were other European immigrants. At the same time they were encouraging immigrants, they were systematically eliminating the original inhabitants or forcing them to assimilate to European culture.

  It’s always been a variation of white nationalism … they don’t mind the world becoming more open and inclusive … as long as it only includes other white European people and cultures.

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    European immigrants accepted immigrants as long as they were other European immigrants.

    This is just not the case. Read again

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The concept of the white “race” was created by the acceptance of new nationalities into the fold in America and then dividing “us vs them” in a new way.

  It’s much the same way that we now have “Judeo-Christianity” so that we can draw the line between white people religion and everyone else.

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